Handfield M, Simard P, Letarte R
Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 1996 Sep;62(9):3544-7. doi: 10.1128/aem.62.9.3544-3547.1996.
Because of the ubiquity of Aeromonas spp., their prevalence in drinking water, and the increasing number of reports on Aeromonas sp.-related infections, a standard method for routine and quantitative recovery had to be defined. On the basis of a survey of 10 media for recovery analysis and subsequent differentiation assays in mixed cultures, we conclude that ampicillin-dextrin agar performed the best for the recovery of Aeromonas spp. in drinking water and the differentiation by simple criteria of that genus from other common waterborne bacteria.